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Pragtical

The practical and pragmatic code editor

Lightweight

~50 MB of RAM, ~10 MB of disk space. Pragtical runs on many devices without performance issues.

Powerful

Syntax highlighting, multiple cursors, command palette and many more. LSP and other features are available as plugins.

Hyperextensible

Pragtical allows you to extend the editor via Lua and its C API. Documentation is available for many parts of the editor.

Cross-platform

Built on SDL, C and Lua, Pragtical runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. Porting to other systems is trivial.

Easy to Use

Easily change your editor settings, color theme, key bindings and installed plugins configuration using the graphical settings manager.

Free & Open Source

Pragtical is licensed under the MIT license. No telemetry or data collection.

Recent Blog Posts

Pragtical v3.12.5 is out with fixes for editing around folded code and wrapped lines, safer syntax loading for language plugins, and build updates fo…

With excitement today's announcement goes to the community port of Pragtical into AmigaOS! For sometime Walkero has been working on this port of Prag…

Pragtical v3.12.4 is out with Project Search view controls for plugins, a fix for SDL GPU subpixel text rendering on light backgrounds, better diagno…

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